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Sep 29, 2008, 09:59AM

Very Scary Stuff

This is what happens when you say something to the equivalent of "Hispanics are the new Afican Americans."

What happens is you get fired.

Didi Lima, the Clark Count, Nevada, GOP communications director and Hispanic community liaison for John McCain, said this at a McCain campaign booth:

"We don't want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community," Lima told The Associated Press. "And that's what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create more programs and give them handouts, food stamps and checks for this and checks for that. We don't want that."

Unbelievable. The Hispanic community liason. And on the heels of this:

The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico's most populous county resigned Thursday, nearly a week after saying "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks" and won't vote for Obama.

Words fail.

Discussion
  • What do you expect? McCain himself still calls Asians "gooks" does he not?

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  • That's casting a wide net; I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that McCain was referring to the North Vietnamese, his captors, as "gooks" one time, in an off the cuff remark. If he'd referred to ALL Asians as "gooks," he wouldn't have even had the credibility to enter the primaries. And let's not forget the "progressive" Hillary Clinton, in rural PA and IN, appealing to, in her words, "white" voters.

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